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pucker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pucker \Puck"er\, n.
A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. ``His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles.''
--Spectator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "prob. earlier in colloquial use" [OED], possibly a frequentative form of pock, dialectal variant of poke "bag, sack" (see poke (n.1)), which would give it the same notion as in purse (v.). "Verbs of this type often shorten or obscure the original vowel; compare clutter, flutter, putter, etc." [Barnhart]. Related: Puckered; puckering.
1726, literal; 1741, figurative; from pucker (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fold or wrinkle. 2 A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. vb. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pucker is a sour apple liqueur.
Pucker may also refer to:
- Peter Pucker (born 1988), Austrian soccer player
- Pucker!, a Selector album
- Macular pucker an ocular disease.
Usage examples of "pucker".
For one thing, there was a subtle, indefinable sense of limitless antiquity and utter alienage which affected one like a view from the brink of a monstrous abyss of unplumbed blackness - but mostly it was the expression of crazed fear on the puckered, prognathous, half-shielded face.
Seeing her full breasts with their dark puckered nipples topping rosy areolas made his mouth water.
Through lowered lashes she could see her flushed breasts rise and fall with every deep breath, the pink nipples standing erect, the areolas puckered and tight.
The cicatrix was puckered, purple at its edges, a livid white at the center.
The woman who had defecated on the grass of the airing court had devised a dance of her own: she made a trancelike pattern with both arms held out in front of her, as though perhaps rocking a large child in her arms, while her face, in which the mouth was puckered inward over blackened gums, was stretched by an expression of concentrated wonder.
Her dextrier puckered up her mouth to spitsear when the enormous moth crossed the air between them too fast even to see and clasped the handlingers to it, slobbering like a famished man.
Quite suddenly, they were a line like a military division, five blindfolded dextriers facing slightly down, their mouths puckered ready to spitsear.
As Ganner stood gaping helplessly, the puckered mouth on the wall suddenly yawned into a hatchway that opened on an enormous vaulted hall beyond.
Her hands were sweating under them, and would likely be puckered, but at least they would not be dry and flaky and itchy at work on Monday.
Its mouth was merely a jawless, circular opening, now puckered and closed.
Susi Kater, the only girl in the tent, puckered up her mouth with disappointment and bitterness when the frogs vanished ingloriously into the soup without the slightest attempt at a swan song or a last jump.
His teeth were gone, and their going had lengthened his dented chin, made the mouth into a puckered gash below that unmistakable nose with the slight crease in its tip.
He stayed with her through her wild ride, pushing as deeply into her as he could, massaging her buttocks and breasts in turn, taking her puckering nipples in his mouth, suckling them.
Her nipples betrayed her, puckering to hard, taut peaks, and her pussy dripped with more moisture.
And she knelt up and pressed against me, the incarnation of softness, and I turned and kissed her large and puckering mouth.